Improved bedstead



i @uiten tween-tent @fitte t' GEORGE G. COCHRAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 64,632, dated Way 14, 1867.

IMPROVED BEDS'IBAD.

TO ALL WHOM I'l MAY OONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE G. OCHRAN, of Brooklyn, in the county ofA Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful improvement in Bcdsteads, and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter'referred to, forms a full and exact specication of the same,

t whereinI have set forth the nature and principles o` my seid improvements, by which my invention may be distinguished from all others of a similar class, together with' such parts as Icleim and desire to have secured .t to me by Letters Patent.

This invention relates to anew and improved means employed forsccuring theA parts of the bedstead together, as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby a firm and secure connection of the parts is obtained, and which will admit of the bedstead being:r put'up and taken down with the greatest facility. In the accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure l is a. side sectional view of my in\-'ention,tal en in the line :t iig. 2.

Figure 2, e. plan or top view of the same. v 'l Figure 3, anenla.rged section showing the manner in which the ends off the, bedstead rails are fitted into the posts. l

Similar letters of reference indicate like part-s.

Theposts A, aswell as the head and foot-boards or panels B, and the rails or side-pieces C, are of usuel construction, and therefore do not require it minute or special description.

The posts A have cach a mortise, a, mede in them to receive a tenen, I), at the ends of the rails or sidev pieces, es shown in iig. 3, and the rails and posts are firmly secured together at euch side by rods D D', having W ff right and left screw-threads upon them on .which e nut, E, works. The rods D have their outer ends bent to j form a hook, c, and these hooks are fitted in eyes 'd in two of the posts A, while the outer ends of the rods D are provided with knobs c to iit in hooks f attached to the other two posts.

It will be secu from the Aabove description that by adjusting the tenons b of the rails C in the moi-rises ct of the posts A, undthen adjusting the outer ends et' the rods D D in the hooks f and 'eyes (Z, and turning the nuts E, the posts and rails or side-pieces will be firmly secured in contact, thev nuts E being provided with right and left internal screw-threads corresponding to those on' the inner ends of the rods D D.

The device is extremely simple and eicient, and admits of a bedstead boing readily put up and taken down.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent I The rods D D' at euch side of the bedstead, provided at their inner ends with right and left screw-threads, connected by nuts E, and attached at their outer ends to the posts A by the hooks and eyes c d, and the knobs 'c and hooks f, in combination with the tenons b on the ends of the rails O, and the mortises a in the posts A, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

The above spccication of my invention signed by Ine this 27th day of February, 1867.

" GEORGE G. COCHRAN.

Witnesses: 1

WM. F. McNAnAits, ALEX. F. Routiers.v 

